I created two pics of the Quanum Vandal for use as a model symbol in the FrSky Taranis Transmitter. Feel free to download and use them yourself!
Category: DIY
HD-P2 powered with LiPo
One of the big downsides of the Tascam HD-P2 audio field recorder ist that it runs on 8 AA batteries. They don’t even last a day and it’s not very fast to change them all out in the middle of a production day.
So I decided to make an adapter to connect my 3S 3000mAh LiPos to it. I simply cut up the cord of its AC wall adapter and soldered two XT60 connectors to the open ends. This way, the AC adapter can still be used, but the new short adapter cord is perfect to connect to the LiPos. To be able to detect low voltage in the LiPo cells I simply hooked up a small LiPo alarm to its balance plug.
This setup proved to be very useful and the 3000mAh battery lasts at least one and a half days!
I built a “Dizzy Bird”
Today, me and a friend met up to finally try and build one of the famous Dizzy Birds ourselves. The whole wing is entirely made of 3mm thick Depron foam board and has a wingspan of roughly 1000mm. They came out quite wonderful, too! My friend’s flew beautifully. He built the non-powered version and it only weighs about 150 grams.
I added a 2205 1350kV 100watts 3 cell engine spinning an 8×4 prop. It weighs 341g including the 1300mAh battery. For radio components I used a FrSky X4R receiver to use with my Taranis and hooked up the little telemetry wires with A2 going to the flight pack through the tiny voltage divider FBVS-01. The remaining SmartPort wires are connected to a standard female servo connector so I can hook up more telemetry sensors in the future, maybe a vario.
I was actually too afraid to let it fly yet. It began to dawn anyway, so I’m just gonna have to wait a while to maiden the thing…
New project: Tillcopter
I have added a new project to the site: The Tillcopter I.
first dynacho vids
Here are some random vids I made while still figuring stuff out:
(very early stage)
(still not much to see)
(Arduino won’t run)
(Arduino powered externally)
first dynacho pics
dynacho so far
I will start blogging about the current state of my dynacho project. Once it is completed I will write a full-length article about it summing it all up into one nice package.